Posts Tagged ‘coffee’
In buddhism, travel on
11 March 2010 tagged airport, armoured personnel carrier, army, baksheesh, book, canal, caretaker, chowkhang gompa, coffee, computer, dal lake, email, fish temple, flight, floating store, french wife, gompa, hill, hindu, horse, hotel, houseboat, india, indian, indian archaeological society, internet cafe, islam, island, kashmir, kashmir valley, ladakh, leh, marijuana, military, mohammad, monastery, money, mosque, mountain, movie, muslim, pahalgan, paulo cohelo, people, photo, photography, photos, picture, riding, runway, school, sledding, snacks, snow, soldiers, srinigar, stars, strike, temple, the zahir, tibetan restaurant, victoria, view, weather with no comments
day 346 — it snowed like mad the whole day. after breakfast i walked around town taking phởtographs of the snow. it was a lot of fun because people were happy to let me take their picture — even though it was snowing and freezing cold. i returned to chowkhang gompa and took some phởtos […]
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8 March 2010 tagged acute mountain sickness, altitude, ams, apple pie, bakery, beer, beggar, cable, coffee, connaught place, delhi, diamox, dinner, flights, house boat, hp service centre, india, internet, kashmir, killing time, ladakh, leh, liverpool game, non-genuine, pakistan, pakistan embassy, pakistan visa, passport, phone, photo, power surge, rooftop bar, srinigar, tickets, underwear, washing with no comments
day 336 — basically, i’m killing time until i get my pakistan visa. i can’t leave delhi without it. so i have been spending my days as lazily as possible, trying not to spend too much money.
i bought some underwear and spent much of the day online. i had dinner at a rooftop bar which was […]
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3 February 2010 tagged air india, book, burma, chess, coffee, craig, cycle rickshaw, email, hammock, hotel, indian embassy, kolkata, lonely planet, mandalay, markets, moustache brothers, myanmar, passport, tattoo, tourist, train ticket, travel, visa, yangon, yangon united fc with no comments
day 311 — today was a fairly easy day. i had breakfast and drank a coffee at an outdoor café. i checked email and walked around town. i spent a few hours online in the afternoon, had dinner and slept.
day 312 — my morning routine had settled into breakfast and coffee. the small café had a […]
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3 February 2010 tagged airport, amapura, bangkok, battery pack, beer, blanket, boat, breakfast, bridge, burma, bus, bus ticket, camera, coffee, cold, customs, dhl, dinner, drunk, flight, hammock, horse cart, hotel, ice cream book, india, indian embassy, koreans, longyes, mandalay, market, monks, myanmar, new years day, new years eve, noodles, passport photos, razors, shampoo, soap, sunglasses, sunset, taxi, temple, thailand, tshirt, u myo aung, ubein bridge, visa, yangon with no comments
day 306 — new years eve — the day began with breakfast and chess online, after which i checked out and headed to the airport. i flew to burma and met some other tourists (two koreans and a swiss guy) and we all agreed to share a taxi to town. i had a few errands […]
In buddhism, photography stuff, travel on
25 December 2009 tagged airport, beer, beggar, boardwalk, book, breafkast, buddhism, buddhist, burmese, bus, canada, chatting, chess, christina, coffee, dinner, drunk, email, event, flea market, flight, foreigners, fourfourtwo, guesthouse, hangover, internet, junk, kl central, korea, kota kinabalu, kuala lumpur, lonely planet, long bar, long island ice tea, lunch, magazines, malaysia, margarita, market, mcdonalds, muffin, photography, photography book store, photos, portrait, post, raffle's hotel, razamataz, sabah, singapore, sreet market, starbucks, steve mccurry, street cafe, temple, ticket, tourist, train, travel, travel agents, waiter, wifi with no comments
day 291 — i got another early start and headed to kl central station. i bought a flight to kota kinabalu and a return train ticket to singapore. it was a busy morning, so i raced back to my hotel and checked out. i stored my bag and returned to the train station to make […]
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16 December 2009 tagged bali, beer, bus station, cafe, cats, coffee, crowd, dancing, dinner, dirty, drunk, ferry, garbage, girlfriend, hotel, indonesia, jakarta, jl jaksa, karaoke bar, kids, korea, monument, mustang sally, noodles, photography, photography club, rain, rubbish, scavenging, sick, singing, slum, spc, street market, sumatra, taxi, tom, traffic, yulia with no comments
day 276 — i spent the day at the hotel and café. i had started feeling a little sick again so i didn’t want to go too far. i messed around online all day.
day 277 — i felt much better today, but i was reluctant to stray too far from the hotel. i stayed in the […]
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16 December 2009 tagged beer, beheaded, blanket, borobodur, breakfast, buddhism, buddhist, chess, coffee, couchsurfing, drunk, fighting, gay, hindu, indonesia, jakarta, java, jogjakarta, lookout point, massage, mosquitoes, noodles, phone card, pool, prambanan, queers, redevelopment, sick, statue, stomachache, swim, temple, tour, train, train ticket, travel, tuk tuk, wifi, yulia with no comments
day 271 — the trip to borobodur required a 4am start. there were only three of us on the tour and when the car picked me up we headed straight off. after an hour we arrived at the ‘lookout point’ which was where we were supposed to watch the sunrise. we walked up a steep […]
In australia, travel on
16 December 2009 tagged air north, australia, bali, beach, beer, bemo, blackout, cafe, chess, chicken satay, coffee, darwin, delay, denpasar, dorms, drinking, flight, homestay, hotel, immigration, jetstar, kakadu trek, kennis, kuta, lonely planet, medewi, minibus, negara, nightmare, passengers, photography, room mate, singapore, sleep, surf town, surfers, swim, taxi, tickets, travel, wifi, yelling, yha, yobos with no comments
day 261 — today was my last day in australia. i packed and checked out of my room. i had a coffee in town and met kennis for lunch. she’d just returned from a kakadu trek, which she said was fantastic. we had chinese for lunch and spent the afternoon together. we chatted until my […]
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16 December 2009 tagged australia, bali, beer, book, breakfast, coffee, couchsurfing, darwin, didgeridoo, drunk, email, girl, guitar, hippies, hong kong, indonesian embassy, internet, kennis, lessons, marijuana, murray, noodle, pot, remembrance day, shopping, sleep, store, ticket, tourists, travel, walkter, yha with no comments
day 256 — remembrance day — i had breakfast and coffee with a black fella called murray, did some washing and read my book. then i got the bus into town to sort out some travel arrangements. i was going to buy a ticket to bali, but was told that i needed an outbound flight […]
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16 December 2009 tagged aboriginals, alice springs, atlas shrugged, australia, beer, bonfire, breakfast, bus, camel station, camp, caves, chinese, coffee, couchsurf, darwin, didgeridoo store, drunk, economics, fire, football, germans, grottos, guide, hangover, hippies, hot, indigenous, katherine, katherine gorge, king's canyon, linux, marijuana, mattress, monolith, movie, noodle, olgas, pot, rock, shower, silhouette, stars, sunrise, sunset, swags, the ghan, theatre, tour bus, tourists, train station, travel, tripod, uluru, uluru climb, walking, water, water bottle bag with no comments
day 251 — today was hot, so i spent a lazy day in alice springs. i had an early coffee and talked to the owner of a didgeridoo store. the owner was a didj player and i got some advice from him. afterwards i got online, catching up on some chess games and had dinner. […]
In australia, photography stuff, travel on
30 October 2009 tagged abc, australia, beer, belaying, breakfast, bridge, brisbane, brisbane river, brisbane wheel, bus, cliff, climbing, climbing club, coffee, cremorne theatre, floodlights, football, goma, kangaroo point, london eye, lyric theatre, mall, night, oman, photography, playhouse, queen street, queensland, queensland museum, radio, restaurant, soccer, socceroos, southbank, state library, storey bridge with no comments
day 226 — after breakfast i took the bus into the city and found myself in the queen street mall. it’s such a long time since i’ve been there, and i was surprised how little the mall had changed. i wandered around for a while looking at the shop windows and contemplating a beer at […]
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26 October 2009 tagged australia, beer, blue poles, boxes, breakfast, bus, canberra, circular quay, coffee, darling harbour, exhibition, federal mint, ferry, fish and chips, gallery, harbour bridge, hostel, jackson pollock, john howard, kirabili, koala, luna park, mall, map, matilda, meat pie, national library, nick cave, norman hotel, opera house, parliament house, rain, steak, sydney, the lodge, tickets, train, yha with no comments
day 221 — when i checked into the hostel (the day before) i got a sydney city map which also had some coupons attached. one of the coupons was for ‘breakfast with the koalas’ at sydney’s wildlife centre. it sounded good, but required getting up early.
i walked down to darling harbour and was disappointed to find […]
In australia, korea, movies, travel on
24 October 2009 tagged aaron, airport, beer, brisbane, bus, canada, christina, cinema, co-workers, coffee, colleagues, craig, customs, family, flight, immigration, incheon, ipswich, kepco, kimchi jiggae, korea, lunch, motorbike, movie, one week, packing, photography, pizza, plane, quarantine, restaurant, seoul, seoul photo club, sleep, sydney, tom, transfer, travel, wedding, wine with no comments
day 211 — after a sleep-in, i went out to a korean restaurant for lunch. i just can’t get enough kimchi jiggae during my stay in korea. after that, christina and i went to see the movie ‘one week’ at the cinema. it’s a really good movie actually. it was a bit weird at the […]
In rants, travel on
8 October 2009 tagged address, advice, aggressive, asia, bank, banpo village, bbq, beer, beijing, bicycle, china, coffee, digs, dinner, drum tower, drunk, dutch, embass, evil eye, expensive, forbidden city, hookah, india, korea, korean, matriarchal, mongolia, muslim quarter, netherlands, olympics, passport, peter, photography, photos, pizza, rain, restaurant, subway, taxi, terracotta warriors, tibet, ticket, tienanmin square, tour, tourist market, train, travel, traveler, visa, xian internet cafe with no comments
day 181 — i booked my train to beijing and a terracotta warrior tour. i walked down to the drum tower and took some phởtos. then i walked around the muslim quarter, bought some dried pineapple, took phởtos and walked back to the hotel. that evening i met a couple of dutch travelers and we […]
In buddhism, rants, travel on
7 October 2009 tagged airport, bananas, beer, bracelet, cafe, chengdu, china, coffee, computer, diary, dinner, employees, flight, friends, grafitti, group, guide, headphones, hostel, hotel, ipod, japanese, lhasa, lunch, mall, meat, military, monasteries, night, online, photography, photos, pictures, police, potala palace, rain, rickshaw, tattoo, temples, tibet, town, train, travel, wifi, xian with no comments
day 176 — i spent the morning at the hotel an said goodbye to hokuto (he was flying back to chengdu). i had two more days in lhasa by myself, but the guide had to go to the airport with hokuto, so i just spent the afternoon wandering around town. i wanted to take some […]